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CORVALLIS - Oregon State University students and faculty who speak Russian natively will put on a one-act, comedy-vaudeville performance in Russian on Saturday, May 3, at the Withycombe Hall Lab Theater.

The performance, which costs $2, begins at 5 p.m. at the theater, located at 30th and Campus Way at OSU. Doors open at 4:15 p.m.

This is the seventh year that OSU has staged a play in Russian - an annual spring event that often draws spectators from Woodburn, Silverton, Newberg and Canby, as well as from communities surrounding Corvallis.

Vreneli Farber, an associate professor of Russian at OSU, directs the plays.

This year, the university will stage "Woe From a Tender Heart," a play that contains singing, dance and comedy. Written by Vladimir Sologub, it is set in 1850 St. Petersburg and the OSU actors will wear period costumes.

The cast includes students Valentina Arabadji, a junior from Salem majoring in exercise and sports science; Yaroslav Bulatov, a senior from Corvallis in pre-computer science; Aleksandra Nagornaya, a sophomore from Salem in pre-computer science; Jonathan Nukpezah, a doctoral student in mathematics from Ghana; Yelena Sadovikova, a senior from Salem in exercise and sport science; and Stanislav Trubin, a senior in computer science from Salem.

Russian-speaking faculty from OSU performing in the play include Irina Ermilova, a research associate at the Linus Pauling Institute, who is from St. Petersburg; Svetlana Erofeeva, a research assistant in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, from Moscow; and Alexander Kurapov, a research associate in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, from St. Petersburg.